There is trouble at home.

"The Situation", which is what I've taken to calling the collection of events that have led to my parent's current predicament, has become a crisis. My family's ability to deal with this crisis depends on its ability to communicate, and determine the contours of a new reality. For a family such as mine, it is a perfectly tragic condition. It's the fucking American pastoral.

So I deal by contemplating la dolce vita. This is a list of my current top-5 to-try Manhattan restaurants, in no particular order:

1. Eleven Madison Park
2. Locanda Verde
3. Degustation
4. Ko
5. Daniel